Training Log Archive: Nadim

Hoyles Mill Conservation Park, MD. I did some more field checking of the patches of forest adjacent to the old farm area and Schaefer Rd. As I'd found the previous week the forest in these areas tend to be very open and fast. There were some greener parts near a patch with stream tributaries but even that wasn't bad and had several good features. The really open forest had relatively (compared to the rest of the par) very few features and no mappable rootstocks. It will just be a joy to run through. There was more forest on this, the south side of the power lines, that I could see but didn't have time to get to. What I saw was predominantly very open too.

I was lucky to get out in between rains. Perhaps it's the wet weather but I was lucky enough to see another snake--this one bigger and in a derelict car that I was taking a waypoint of. Earlier, I'd spooked out another wild turkey and this one flew off.

Event: QOC Patapsco Granite - CANCELLED
 

Germantown Soccerplex, MD. Peggy and started a run together. Since I was going to be out later I turned back early and explored more of what was once farmland on the way. Though I wasn't pushing, and was going slow, I was able to run okay.

After my run with Peggy, I had a long day field checking in Hoyles Mill Conservation Park. I was able to navigate to features that I'd mapped the week earlier and to straighten out alignments of boulder groups, map some vegetation, find a lot of features, and even get lost. These columbines were on more than one cliff and are relatively unusual for the area.

From Northfield Rd., I went to Greentree Rd. where there's a food truck, to pickup an order for Max and me.

From Northfield Rd., Peggy and I went up Moorland Rd. to Overhill Rd.. to Maple Ridge Rd., to the Bethesda Trolley Trail, to Old Georgetown Rd., to Greentree Rd., to Grant St., to Northfield Rd. This was a hilly route for the area but that doesn't matter much when one is just walking. For a change, it was nice weather with clear skies.